"The Pre-Tang Chinese Animal Stories in the ShanHaiJing
and SouShenJi".

p.

11

"Of all the Six Dynasties anomaly collections, Gan Bao’s (370-420
A.D.) Soushenji is the most important."

11-2

"Kenneth J. DeWoskin’s dissertation "The Soushenji ..."
"

12

"the twenty-chapter version is closest to Gan Bao’s original work."

Bo-wu-z^i

p.

BWZ^

14

[6]

"The Yuejun Kingdom has a kind of cow. If people cut some meat from
it, it would not die, and the next day the wound would heal."

[7]

"In the east Sea, a dragon mated with a fish. When the baby was
born, it was so scared that it would go back into its mother ..., but
would come out again later."

[8]

"Pheasant had beautiful feathers, so it stared at its reflection
on the water all day long. Then it would get dizzy and fall into the water
and drowned."

30

"In the ... Han dynasty, the Hu people of the north presented an
animal ... It was called Fierce Beast ... The animal was delighted to
see the tiger. It licked its lips and swayed its tail".

Sou-s^en-ji

p.

SS^J

14

7/182

"In the region of Huiji, the crabs all suddenly became rats ...
At first they had hair and flesh but no bones ... A few day later, they
all became female." {starfish?}

18

3/61

"in order to revive a dead horse, dozens of people are sent to ...
the east to beat trees in the woods with bamboo roles. A monkey is then
driven out of the woods ... , it disappears into the body of the horse
and the horse revives." -- "the horse’s soul (in the shape of
a monkey) ... is brought back, and it revives the horse."

19

3/67

"(other shamans) instruct that some empty graves in a waste town
... be dug ... Dozens of foxes are caught there. ... When the bags are
eventually opened, two pounds of fox hair are found inside".

19-20

3/69

"Hua Tuo had a yellow dog tied to two horses. After the horses ran
thirty miles, the dog was fatigued. Then he had the dog pulled by people
for fifty more miles. ... He had the dog’s stomach cut open, and hold
the dog’s open wound ... to the daughter’s knee. Soon a snake came out
of the knee. The snake had eye but no pupils and the scales had grown
in a direction opposite to normal snakeskin." {caecilian}

20

3/70

"Hua Tuo ... told him to drink some garlic soup ... After the patient
did so, he spat out a snake and recovered." {tapeworm}

21

11/281

"Sheng’s blind mother ..., the maids feeding her a dish of maggots
without her knowledge, which ended up healing her blindness."

6/126

"During the ... Han, a yellow rat danced with its tail in its mouth
in front of the Royal Palace for one day and one night and then died."

22

6/104

"During the reign of emperor Zhou of the Shang dynasty, a big turtle
grew hair, and a rabbit grew horns."

23-4

19/440

"In the high mountains of Eastern Yue, there was a giant serpent
dozens of feet long ... The serpent told people in a dream that it wanted
to eat young girls, so the local government official sent it a girl every
year. One year, a girl ... named Li Ji volunteered to be the sacrifice.
... When the serpent appeared and ate the rice food, the girl killed it
with the sword."

25

3/67

"the dog is tortured and eviscerated."

25-6

20/457

"Li Xinchun ... fell asleep in a grass in the field. At that time,
a hunter was burning the grass in the wilderness and the fire was approaching
Li. ... The dog the ran to a pond nearby and came back to wet the grass
around Li. When Li woke up, the dog had died of fatigue. ... the magistrate
... ordered that the dog be buried ... in clothing and in a coffin ...
The grave mound was hundreds of feet high."

26

20/460

"A man caught a baby gibbon, but when the mother followed him to
beg for the baby, he killed the baby, so the mother gibbon died of sorrow
right away. The man ... finds her liver and intestines were broken into
pieces out of sorrow."

27

??

32

18/428

"In the area of Wu, ... On the ninth day of the ninth month, some
scholar ... found an empty grave. Inside was an assembly of foxes. The
foxes all fled ..., but an old fox remained. It was the white-haired scholar."

19/443

"One man was rowing a boat on a river in a rainy evening. A fair
girl came to ... get onboard. At midnight, when the rain had stopped and
the moon rose, he found the girl had turned into a turtle." {Since
turtle-shells were fired for divination by the Chinese, cf. voluntary
entry into fire by [Hindu] heroine DRaUPadi = [Hellenic] DRUoPe,
who copulated with a tortoise (GM 21.j).}

32-3

"18/443" {19/448?}

"when a Minister in Nanyang died, ... he suddenly sat up in the
coffin. He ... beat the maids and servants. ... In the following few years,
he died and became alive again and did the same things again and again
... One day he ... revealed his true identity – that he was a dog. His
family killed the dog". {After having been thought dead, Odusseus
returned suddenly and slew (GM 171.i) his maid-servants. He already
had been praesent incognito when his hound Argos, who recognized him,
died (GM 171.d).}

33

19/442

"in the ... Han dynasty, a magistrate decided a case of two old
men disputing over some mountain land. ... Eventually the magistrate noticed
the two men looked strange, so he ordered that they be beaten, and they
turned into two snakes." {Since the beatings would be with rods,
cf. the rods of >ahro^n and of his rival magician in the court of the
par<oh, where the two rods turned into two snakes (S^MWT
7:12).}

14/350

"a girl whose father was far away in military service joked with
a horse of her family that if he could take her father home she would
marry him. The horse immediately ran away and took the father back home.
{cf. the flying horse Pegasos transporting Bellero-phon on military
expeditions (GM 75.d)} However, ... her father ... killed the horse
and hung spread horsehide on the wall. On day the skin wrapped up the
girl and flew away." {In order to confront Bellero-phon, "the
Xanthian women hoisted their skirts to the waist". Cf. also the flying
skirts of star-maidens in Borneo mythology.}

34

18/421

"The wooden memorial pillar in front of the grave told the fox that
if he went he would be recognized by Zhang Hua ... When the fox scholar
visited Zhang Hua, Zhang Hua was so amazed by the young man’s knowledge
{Authorities were baffled by S^ims^o^n secret; "And they could not
in three days declare the riddle." (S^PT.YM 14:14)} ... Then
Zhang Hua ordered that the wooden pillar in front of the grave be cut.
When the fox scholar saw the fire {S^ims^o^n "caught three hundred
foxes, ... and put a torch in the midst between every two tails. And ...
he ... set the torches on fire" (S^PT.YM 15:4-5)} made with
the pillar {S^ims^o^n "took fast hold of the two middle pillars"
(S^PT.YM 16:29)}, it turned into a fox.

36

"Zhang Hua was impressed by his fashionable scholar with his youthful
hairdo". {S^ims^o^n described his hairdo : "there hath not come
a razor upon my head" (S^PT.YM 16:17).}

42

12/307

"a tiger, when trapped, turned into a lowest level local official.
When the people released him, he turned into a tiger again" – "this
is a metaphor that officials are as dangerous as tigers."

"Chen the Thirteen ... slept on a tiger skin ..., and ten years
later he was able to change into a tiger. ... His wife ... hid to observe
him. When he started transforming into a tiger, she came out tom beat
him. He ran away in the form of a tiger without having time to transform
one arm."